Invisible Cloak?

Saw Jodhaa Akbar today...quite good, dragged a bit and at times made me feel that they should have just called it "Akbar" and introduced Jodhaa as an aspect...haan aspects..have been deep into AOP lately...

Anyways, in the midst of watching the "magnum epic", there was a particular shot that made me ponder for a little while...it felt weird too...Akbar, to understand his people better seeps into the mainstream as a plainclothesman...no disguise, nothing, just a cloak (not a Harry Potter one) and some normal clothes. He goes into the markets, talks to people, learns their concerns, all this by being one of them and the best part is "NOBODY RECOGNIZES HIM!"...it didn't make sense for a second, but later it did..no cameras, no pictures, no TV, no Internet..what else do you expect! not everybody is allowed into a palace...there might have been paintings but Artists normally "glorify" kings in their paintings...they cannot afford to do otherwise :)

So, what would Akbar do if he had to do all that around 500 years later? Being a king, he would have a lot of media coverage, picture splashed in every newspaper almost daily, publicly private life, love-hate groups in Orkut, Facebook, MySpace...so basically even with a very good disguise, people would RECOGNIZE him! What would you do if you were Akbar? Wear an invisible cloak and go around? How would you talk then? Even Harry Potter had problems with the cloak...good like with that :)...what would YOU do??? food for some thought ----???